Amartya sen, renowned Indian economist, nobellaureate(1998) contributed in welfare economicsand social choice theory. India has a long andmultifaceted history of argumentation and publicreasoning. In his magnificent book TheArgumentative Indian: writing in Indian culture,history and identity. Amartya sen provides thishistory with a global context. Public reasoning isfundamental to both democratic politics […]
A Raisin in the Sun can be considered as a turning point in the American art.Lorraine Hansberry was the first playwright to create realistic portraits of African-American life. The play is recognizably autobiographical. Hansberry during her shortperiod of life has made a remarkable mark on the American theatre. The playaddresses […]
Covid-19 has forced universities across India, and the world indeed, to suspend physicalclassrooms and shift to online classes. In India, while this transition has been smooth formost private universities, the public ones are still adapting.As soon as the Covid-19 crisis broke out in India, in Kerala the universities like KeralaUniversity,Calicut […]
Ceremony is a novel written by Leslie Marmon Silko ( Laguna pueblo). TheLaguna Pueblo is a federally recognised tribe of Native American Pueblo peoplein west central New Mexico, near the city of Albuquerque, in the United States.Part of the Laguna territory is included in the Albuquerque metropolitan area.The name Laguna […]
The Sound and the Fury, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1929,that details the destruction and downfall of the aristocratic Compsonfamily from four different points of view. Faulkner’s fourth novel, The Soundand the Fury is notable for its nonlinear plot structure and its unconventionalnarrative style. William Faulkner’s early work was […]
The Stone Angel is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. The novel was first published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart This novel is one of the best-known works of Laurence’s series of five novels that is set in the fictitious town named as Manawaka, Manitoba. The Stone Angel […]
Leslie Marmon Silko is an American writer. A Laguna Pueblo Indian woman, she is one of the prominent figures in the First Wave of the Native American Renaissance. She is a widely known novelist and a poet, her career is significantly distinguished by making people aware of ingrained racism […]
SHORT ANALYSIS Geoffrey Chaucer was widely considered as the greatest English poet in the 14th century. His poem “Canterbury Tales” reflects his own age and forms a wonderful commentary upon the life in the Middle Ages. The group of pilgrims described in the Prologue is itself an unequaled picture […]
CHARACTER ANALYSIS Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of the novel. The word ‘Houyhnhnmn’ etymologically means ‘perfection of Nature’ .Houyhnhnms are rational equine beings and are masters of the land contrasting strongly with Yahoos. Here Swift uses anthropomorphism.The Houyhnhnm’s society is based upon […]
CHARACTER ANALYSIS Laputian’s are the absentminded intellectuals who live on the floating island of Laputa, encountered by Gulliver on his third voyage. The Laputans are parodies of theoreticians, who have scant regard for any practical results of their own research. During Gulliver’s stay among them, they do not mistreat him, […]
Brobdignagians are the giants whom Gulliver meets on his second voyage. Brobdingnagians are basically a reasonable and kindly people governed by a sense of justice. Even the farmer who abuses Gulliver, at the beginning he is gentle with him. The farmer’s daughter, Glumdalclitch, gives Gulliver perhaps the most kindhearted treatment […]
Gulliver describes Lilliputians as ingenious people.They treated him with so much expense and magnificence. These people are most excellent Mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in Mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning.Lilliputians considered fraud as greater crime than theft.They […]
CHARACTER ANALYSIS Lemuel Gulliver is the protagonist and narrator in the novel “Gulliver’s Travels”.Gulliver is the son of a small landowner and he was born and brought up in a middle- class family in Nottinghamshire,England.He is well educated and he was ship’s surgeon.Gulliver is married to Mary Burton and […]
Imamu Ameer previously known as leroi jones.( Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays,music criticism and a political activist. In African – American community, some compare Baraka to James Baldwin due to his writing style (he was also an African American writer) and recognize him as […]
Jean Margaret Laurence was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada’s writing community. Margaret Laurence was born on 18 […]
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